MAY YOUR STUFFING BE TASTY,
MAY YOUR TURKEY BE PLUMP.
MAY YOUR POTATOES 'N GRAVY HAVE NARY A LUMP.
MAY YOUR YAMS BE DELICIOUS.
MAY YOUR PIES TAKE THE PRIZE,
MAY YOUR THANKSGIVING DINNER STAY OFF OF YOUR THIGHS!!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL!
When the War on Poverty was launched in the early 60s, the goal was to make people self-sufficient, not government dependent. Now we've spent $19 trillion and what do we have to show for it? A very well paid bureaucracy with fat pensions and excellent health benefits that keep people poor and dependent.
"The federal government runs over 80 means-tested programs providing cash, food, housing, medical care and social services to around 100 million Americans. That’s a third of the U.S. population. Combined federal and state expenditures on these programs come to roughly $9,000 per recipient per year."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2012/10/welfare-is-at-an-all-time-high
Ms. Gristina says they are picking on her because she wouldn’t give up the names of her well connected clients.
“A spokeswoman for the district attorney said Gristina had no one to blame but herself for the criminal prosecution.
“There is nothing glamorous about prostitution,” Erin Duggan said. “Anna Gristina rented women’s bodies for profit, which makes her a pimp. That also makes her a felon, and the court has now issued that judgment. She has no one to blame but herself for her decisions.””
Only 11% of funding in the farm bill goes to farm policies. More than 84% of farm bill-related spending goes to food and nutrition programs like food stamps, not to farmers. Current bill ended Sept. 30, and we're into the lame duck session of Congress to work out the next 5 year bill. Agriculture employs 14% of the U.S. workforce, or about 21 million people.
Since the 1960s, academic freedom has been decreasing and censorship increasing on our college campuses.
Read this account of what happened to a tenured Twain scholar almost 25 years ago when he questioned the politicization of an upper level English course at the University of Texas at Austin.
Heterodoxy article on Alan Gribben 
Clayton Luckie, Democrat, Montgomery County, Dist. 39, Ohio, “was indicted last month on 49 criminal counts accusing him of raiding $130,000 from his campaign account and spending it at places such as casinos, and furniture, jewelry and clothing stores.
Luckie, who declined to comment for this story when reached by phone, has been a no-show at state functions since July 9, when he last attended a bi-monthly meeting of the state controlling board. Since then, Luckie has been paid just over $21,000. He is slated to receive another $11,000 in salary before he leaves office at the end of the year, when his term will expire.
Luckie agreed after July 9 to stop attending controlling board meetings while his attorney negotiated with FBI agents and prosecutors, who unsucessfully sought Luckie’s resignation.”
Luckie’s trial is December 20. So who is representing the people who elected him?
Food stamps. Hit hard by the 2008 financial collapse, more Americans are using food stamps to help buy the basics this Thanksgiving than ever before. Average participation has increased 70 percent since 2007, with costs reaching $72 billion, according the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), and is a major stalling point in the farm bill legislation. The Senate version, which passed last summer, cuts the program by $4 billion over 10 years, while the House version, which has not yet seen a floor vote, cuts $16 billion over the same time period, with some GOP members complaining that amount is still too low. With powerful lobbies like the defense industry rallying against the automatic budget cuts that will take effect if Congress doesn't agree on other spending reductions, food stamps are a juicy target.
Turkey. The National Turkey Federation, as a member of the newly formed Coalition to Promote U.S. Agricultural Exports, urged Congressional leaders earlier this month to pass the farm bill with strong export programs. "With the expiration of the 2008 Farm Bill on September 30, FAS [Foreign Agricultural Service] currently has no authority to run market promotion and development programs..." reads the letter, which was signed by dozens of powerful agriculture trade groups. The Federation also is part of another coalition pushing Congress to quickly normalize trade relations with Russia, pointing to $300 million in annual poultry exports to that country.
Stuffing. Whether you put bread or cornmeal in your stuffing, you can bet there's a faction of farmers behind that ingredient lobbying hard, and that the federal crop insurance program is a big issue. Both the House and the Senate reform but also expand this program. Its cost is expected to rise to $15 billion this year for taxpayers in the face of this year's drought. "Federal crop insurance provides an effective risk management tool to farmers and ranchers when they are facing losses beyond their control," wrote a group of growers trade associations last spring, including the American Farm Bureau, the American Soybean Association, and the National Corn Growers Association. Meanwhile, the Environmental Working Group, along with conservative group such as the Heritage Foundation and the budget watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense criticize the program a subsidy that benefits wealthy growers at taxpayer expense. Also decried is the secrecy built into the program: Congress in 2000 prohibited the release of information of who benefits from crop insurance, writes the Heritage Foundation. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., has introduced legislation to require release of crop insurance beneficiaries.
Cranberry sauce. Like many an agricultural group, cranberries have their own caucus. This one, however, is new, formed in June by Massachussetts Sens. John Kerry, a Democrat, and Scott Brown, Kerry's soon-to-be former Republican colleague. "Senator Kerry has been a long-time supporter of the Massachusetts cranberry industry," notes the press release from Kerry's office. "Over the last 12 years, he has worked to secure millions of dollars in funding for important cranberry projects and research in an effort to keep Massachusetts on top as an industry leader." Cranberry growers such as Ocean Spray are on the defensive as the U.S. Department of Agriculture considers standards for sugary drinks in public schools; executives say adding sugar to the juice is necessary because of the fruit is naturally tart. The company also lobbies on issues ranging from sugar taxes to pesticides.
Pumpkin pie. Dairy price support programs expired along with the farm bill in September, leaving dairy farmers in a bind. The Dairy Famers of America has called on Congress to pass the Farm bill quickly and bring "some relief to farmers suffering through weather-related disasters and unfavorable market conditions." Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., spoke for his state's dairy industry on the Senate floor on November 14, calling for passage of the bill. Meanwhile, a coalition of sugar users--the candy and beverage industries among them--pushes yet again for reform of the sugar industry, which has beat back such attacks on sugar support programs for years. Most recently, the Senate voted during the farm bill debate to table an amendment by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., to eliminate the program.
Today I shopped at Marc’s especially for groceries to take to church for the Thanksgiving service. I’ve volunteered there so I know what is useful (at our pantry the clients get to choose from a variety of foods, and most know what they can and should eat, like low sugar, low salt, etc.) I didn’t buy Thanksgiving type food because the holiday will be over by the time these items get to the shelves, also many of the clients are different nationalities, and what we like might not be enjoyed by them. Also, I avoided glass jars, because bags break and sometimes the clients are on foot or using the bus. Here’s what I selected. I bought about 20 items and spent about $30.00.
Pasta
Spaghetti sauce, traditional
Canned fruit
Canned vegetables
Large container of applesauce
Single serving meals which include meat and vegetables (not everyone has a family)
High quality soup, low sodium (if you don’t like watery tasteless soup, they won’t either)
3 different types of cold cereal, unsweetened (we don’t eat this, but many families with children do)
Boxed mashed potato mix (a bag of potatoes is much more economical, but you don’t know the cooking situation)
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/20/Food-Pantries-Overwhelmed-As-Obama-Economy
For the life of me, I don’t understand the “pantries overwhelmed” message, since record numbers are signed up for food stamps, the unemployment rate supposedly is under 8%. Food pantries are run by volunteers—mostly by churches--with some paid staff, and most of the food IS NOT DONATED, it is purchased, and farmers and producers and food processors are paid by the government—it is a huge business. Our local food bank gets a lot of support from foundations and non-profits.
http://www.midohiofoodbank.org/img/PDFs/Know-Get-The-Facts/MOF-History-timeline.pdf
A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law.
CNET has learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
✭ Grants warrantless access to Americans' electronic correspondence to over 22 federal agencies. Only a subpoena is required, not a search warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause.
✭ Permits state and local law enforcement to warrantlessly access Americans' correspondence stored on systems not offered "to the public," including university networks.
✭ Authorizes any law enforcement agency to access accounts without a warrant -- or subsequent court review -- if they claim "emergency" situations exist.
✭ Says providers "shall notify" law enforcement in advance of any plans to tell their customers that they've been the target of a warrant, order, or subpoena.
✭ Delays notification of customers whose accounts have been accessed from 3 days to "10 business days." This notification can be postponed by up to 360 days
“Barack Obama is neither a good man nor one who wants what is best for America. He is a bad, conscienceless man, who wants to undo America in the name of a very foreign model of social organization. . .
Allen West, who is not a coward, may just have lost his congressional seat. He is losing it in part because he had the courage to say what we all know -- that there are communists in the United States Congress -- and his supposed compatriots in the GOP abandoned him as a crank.
Michele Bachmann -- whom I strongly supported in the primaries -- came within an inch of losing her congressional seat. She almost lost in part because she has had the courage to speak out about a host of constitutional issues, from the debt to the Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the government, and her supposed compatriots in the GOP quietly refused to support her campaign in the hope that she would disappear, and take her embarrassing hard truths with her.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/a_few_things_i_never_want_to_hear_again.html#ixzz2CnRv4r4p
“. . . a nation that embraced a vast social welfare system eighty years ago, and has expanded it continually ever since; a nation that for the past fifty years has moved inexorably towards the locus classicus of socialist egalitarianism, government-controlled health care; a nation that elected and re-elected a man who has openly self-identified as a progressive and advocated wealth-redistribution; and a nation in which the popular culture is dominated by artless harlots, pimps, and gangsters, a "centrist" is a person who embraces social disintegration and authoritarianism. To be "moderately conservative" in such a milieu simply means that one finds the latest music video about teenage lesbian orgies just a little over the top.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/a_few_things_i_never_want_to_hear_again.html#ixzz2CnR8lFRJ
This summary is from Rachel, at Thoughts of a Conservative Mom, and the revelations about Petraeus and the election cover up and the bombing of Israel hadn’t even made the head lines yet (November 7).
A flood of regulations that Obama kept on hold and the media hid until after the election will start going into effect, strangling struggling businesses.
Taxmageddon – a record $494 billion tax hike – will go into effect on January 1st, 2013, plunging us into even deeper recession.
The Left will start going after the internet, citizen journalism, social media and talk radio – any competition to the Left-wing propagandist media.
Obama and the Democrat-controlled senate will begin ceding our national sovereignty to the United Nations, one treaty at a time. Parental rights, gun rights, and internet freedom are especially under threat.
Obamacare will go into full effect, bankrupting private providers and putting America on the road to single-payer, as was intended.
Planned Parenthood will expand on the taxpayer dime, preparing to perform thousands of abortions via socialized medicine.
A direct assault on religious liberty as Obama’s HHS forces religious business owners to pay for abortions, and tries to force the Catholic church – the largest competitor to the Welfare State – out of the health care industry and other charities altogether.
With the Republicans still controlling congress, Obama will simply go around them and rule by executive diktat. Republicans will have to grow the spine needed to hold him in check.
With Democrats still in control of the senate, no budgets will be passed. All of Obama’s judges and appointments will be confirmed. And if they aren’t, he’ll go ahead and appoint them anyway.
Obama will likely appoint at least two more activist judges to lifetime appointments in the Supreme Court. The senate will confirm them.
Obama will continue to block drilling and natural gas development, driving up gas prices and making us dangerously dependent on the volatile Middle East while he dumps billions more into “green” energy subsidies.
Obama’s EPA will destroy the coal industry, causing electricity rates to skyrocket, as he imposes thousands more “green” regulations on what’s left of our manufacturing and other industries.
Illegal aliens will be granted amnesty, voting rights and welfare benefits.
Our border will remain unprotected as drug cartels and terrorists invade with impunity.
Obama will continue to funnel money to the Muslim Brotherhood and weapons to terrorists.
Israel will be forced to attack Iran to prevent it from going nuclear. Obama will not support them. The Muslim world will not be afraid of action from the United States, and will feel free to join forces to destroy Israel.
Christian persecution across the globe will intensify, as the Obama administration looks the other way.
Obama’s spending spree will continue, likely bringing our national debt to a suicidal $22 Trillion before 2016.
More people will be forced into dependency on food stamps and other government programs as the Cloward-Piven strategy accelerates.
The Fed will continue to print more money out of thin air, creating hyperinflation.
We will continue on the road towards Greece. We must be prepared to feed and defend our loved ones, and care for the needy if and when the welfare state collapses.
I noticed a close out at Marc’s today for $.89. I read the label carefully (I don’t eat or put on my skin things made in China, or with only a “distributed by” on the label.) We pay big bucks for FDA and USDA, and I intend to take advantage of that. Anyway, seems to check out fine, and it has a wonderful fragrance. Just a touch will do it—my first try I had to wipe some off. Made in Canada, and the parent company is in the UK.
“Delon skin cream line products are based upon botanical remedies. Our philosophy derives from combining the decades-old wisdom inherent in botanical, herbal and floral treatments with modern ingredients and formulations. Using natural herbs and pH-balanced, many biodegradable formulas, each product is carefully formulated to deliver all the benefits of each unique blend. All of our products reflect our ongoing efforts to preserve the earth's natural resources by being environmentally friendly and cruelty-free. “
On the internet prices ranged from $4 to $8 for this size. So I’ll probably never see it again.
“The growing gap is not between classes, but between families of married couples and unmarried women with children. Women can virtually eliminate poverty by 1) finishing high school, 2) not having babies as teen-agers, and 3) marrying the father of their children. If her husband takes a job, any job and keeps it, he will almost guarantee their success.
There is still plenty of opportunity in this country--illegals who flood over our borders seeking it is proof of that. But young women need to get smart and stop listening to musicians and boyfriends who call them "Ho" and "bitch" and get down to the business of saving their future children with some backbone and pride.”
Excerpt from a blog I wrote in 2007
I’ve taken some dialect quizes on the Internet, and usually come out north or sort of Canadian. If I'd grown up around here (central Ohio), "drug my feet" would be my preference. But I grew up in northern Illinois, west of Chicago, and there I’d look like something "the cat dragged in." I also put an R in “wash” and “Washington,” which embarrasses my children. This map is a bit different than some I’ve seen, but it does feature Ohio.
I have some amazing stories, but on the off chance these people read my blogs, I’ll restrain myself.
"It is amazing to me how much Poland is becoming, God help us, like the United States. I thought they would be much more willing to hang on to their strong Catholic heritage, given what they have gone through in the last century. But instead they too associate 'freedom' with sexual license and radical feminism, and also are becoming more materialistic."
"Conservatism can thrive without progressivism. Progressivism cannot survive without conservatism. In short, a progressive worldview built on redistributionism, must have something to re-distribute. Without the efforts of the makers, the takers and their enablers are dead in the water. The most remarkable aspect of this last election is that Democrats ran on a platform that amounted to biting the hand that feeds them, and still prevailed. . . “
Anyone with an ounce of common sense knows the President knew. He just didn’t have enough faith in his supporters that they would stick with him if they knew about all the lost weapons and running guns to Syria. Oh man of little faith. There’s no way to dislodge your loyal, true blue lackies.
Both my sister and my brother and their families moved to Florida in the late 1970s, thus giving all of us a destination for winter vacations. My parents weren’t exactly snow birds, but in the early 80s they did get the hang of spending a few weeks and renting an apartment. Recently a post card has surfaced from my Aunt’s estate, probably mailed from a shorter visit, and so we have a 25 year old account of what they were doing in Florida in March 1987 written by my mother to her sister.
“Had a good trip down. Stan, Casey and Heather met us at the Sarasota airport. The weather is quite cool, but sunny. Carol will take me to the spa for swimming several mornings. Howard has browned up at the ball park with Stan. Attended Church of the Brethren again with Greg, Cindy and Ron.
String concert Sunday Eve. My old cello is back from repairs and Heather ready to take lessons.
We will be home Thursday nite. Having a great time.”
When an organization like Planned Parenthood is suspected of not just fraud, but criminal cover-ups, falsifying medical information, violating safety standards, encouraging prostitution and sex trafficking, medical malpractice, sex-selection abortion, accepting racially-motivated donations, and huge profits, this is no longer about abortion. It’s about accountability.
Romney would have won if Christians had not stayed home on November 6. Conservatives, many of whom are evangelical Christians, tend to sit on their hands, and many weren't thrilled about a Mormon as their candidate. So if we need to put some blame out there, it's on us because we didn't talk to or convince our neighbors and friends that we needed a pro-life, moral man of character in the White House. I did my part. And you?
“Pundits warn Republicans better pander to groups Obama won big, such as minorities and single women. In 1960, 1 out of 20 babies were born out of wedlock. That figure today is 4 out of 10. (below) When LBJ started his “War on Poverty” black unemployment was 8.1%. 47 years and 16 trillion dollars later that number has almost doubled. Traditional values are mocked on TV, Christianity is ridiculed and fathers are often the buffoons in the family. And on November 6th, the “hip” candidate with a disastrous record beat the “square” candidate with a record of success. So pundits, this is not about race or gender, it’s about culture. And if we continue to lose this battle, it’s not Republicans you need to warn, it’s America.” Paula Priesse
Notice a dip around 1996? That was welfare reform, but Democrats were successful in getting most of the benefits restored piece by piece.
Something else happened Sept. 11, 2012. Netanyahu of Israel said speaking at a news conference in Jerusalem, “Those in the international community who refuse to put red lines before Iran don’t have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.”
Little did he know, or we know, that on that day, our moral authority to say anything about what was going on in the Middle East had been shattered. That was also the day Obama turned down a meeting with Netanyahu and then left the next day for a visit with Jay-Z and Beyonce, after a full day of watching the bombing of our embassy in Benghazi in real time.
Also, about this press conference, neither the President nor his media pals brought up the bombing currently going on in Israel, our closest ally, at least until the Obama administration, in the middle east.
“At one point he said: “And we’re after an election now. I think it is important for us to find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, and I’m happy to cooperate in any ways that Congress wants.” It was, of course, just as important to find out what happened in Benghazi before the election, but we should be grateful to the president for giving us this inadvertent glimpse into the role politics played in his thinking about Benghazi before he was reelected.
The president, perhaps realizing he had made a revealing slip of the tongue, went on to insist that he’d been providing information all along. But in response to a question about criticism of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice from Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, the president slipped again. “For them to go after the U.N. ambassador, who had nothing to do with Benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence that she had received, and to besmirch her reputation, is outrageous.”
If Susan Rice “had nothing to do with Benghazi,” why then was she sent out to represent the administration in multiple television interviews five days after the attacks?”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/susan-rice-s-talking-points_663527.html
Perhaps this has been addressed in the Benghazi-gate investigation, but I haven't seen it. The reason the CIA was there was to recover weapons which had fallen into the hands of al-qaeda, and which were being funneled to Syria to support anti-regime forces there. OK. Now brushing aside the deaths of the Americans (who were there for that purpose), are tons of weapons still being moved to Syria and are there still Americans in Libya attempting to either run guns or find weapons? The cover up is only part of the story (because of the election), but isn't what we were doing there also important to investigate? It looks like Congress wasn't consulted on any of this.
Another question I have about Benghazi-gate has to do with Jill Kelley, the Lebanese born Floridian socialite who parties with military big-wigs and is a close friend of Petraeus and his “betray us” wife. The FBI got into this, so we're told, because Kelley asked a friend who was in the FBI to find out who was sending her masked e-mails. Tell me how common is this and do we need to be concerned about the FBI, or any agency of government/police, checking up on private individuals as a favor for friends? And yet, asking for ID when voting is a violation of something imaginary?
While that FBI guy was doing something for a friend, another FBI guy much, much higher up saw no need to alert the President that the head of the CIA could be involved in something that could impact national security. Really? What sort of instruction do FBI members get on responsibility, authority, morality, lines of reporting, and the history of love affairs in national security going back to Cleopatra?
Over 54 million dead babies, and we still are arguing about it. This excerpt was written in 1971, before its passage.
Now some people want to argue that legal enactments against abortion are similar to the legal enactment of laws governing the private lives of citizens. This is simply not the case. Laws concerning abortion have been made, not to change the hearts of men and women, but to protect the unborn child. Analogically, the civil rights law has been enacted not so much to make whites love blacks as to make them accord blacks those rights which are their just due.
This is common sense to most of us. We should, for instance, be utterly dumbfounded to hear someone argue that he doesn't believe a black man is human, and therefore this government has no right to legislate laws restraining him from shooting blacks. In the same way it is just as absurd for someone to argue that laws prohibiting the murder of the unborn child should not be legislated because that person does not accept the unborn child as being fully human.
http://www.journal33.org/m-frank/abortion.htm
Now things have changed a bit since this was written. Most pro-abortion Christians I know admit abortion is taking a human life. Where they go from there is just plain evil.
“I could go to a hundred American campuses and say: ‘America’s the rogue nation in the world. It’s America’s nuclear arsenal, not Iran’s that’s the problem. We should put the leash on America.’ And I’d get thunderous applause at Berkeley, Oberlin College, Yale.
“So there’s plenty of people on the left who have this sort of ‘let’s shrink America’ ideology,” Author Dinesh D’Souza
VAN SUSTEREN: OK, you say they lied. So be specific. What do you think they lied about?
ROHRABACHER: Well, we know that for six days after the attack -- and we just heard from a member of the Intelligence Committee who saw the film -- they knew within a matter of hours, if not right away, that this was an organized, armed hit job by al Qaeda, probably, but an organized, commanded effort to murder our people.
Yet for six days after that, they were telling the American people that this was movie rage, this was a crowd getting out of control in order -- and then they murdered our ambassador, rather than al Qaeda.
And what does that do? That means we are not worrying about radical Islamic terrorism. Instead we're worried about a crowd getting out of control.
That was a lie! They knew it was a lie when they said it! When they sent out ambassador Rice to all the talk shows, they knew that was not the truth. When you tell something that's not the truth to the American people, especially in the middle of a crisis, they shouldn't expect to get away with it and be forgiven.
" IMMEDIATELY after the Benghazi attack, he made the EXTRAORDINARY effort to APOLOGIZE to the Libyan, Islamic-extremist terrorists who attacked our Embassy & the safe-house, which killed an Ambassador, (2) SEALs, and another American… MORE THAN A MONTH AFTER the Benghazi TERRORIST ATTACK, he [Obama] FINALLY addresses the American public, to defend Susan Rice.” Kitchen Cabinet member Christine Martinez
Since all the other agencies/officials (Clapper, Clinton, Pretraeus) are denying they started the film/video rumor, it could only be the White House. But how did they get the information? Made it up? Hoped no one would check?
And now there will be no more Twinkies, but some of you will have legal marijuana. I’d rather face a driver who’d just eaten a box of Twinkies than one who is stoned.
Not sure, but if I went back through 2004 comments on the internet, this could be a John Kerry voter. In those days, the Democrats were upset about many of the very things that bother Republicans today, especially an expanding war based on faulty intelligence (largely from the Clinton era). They wanted recounts in Ohio, but decided finally to imitate the “values” position of the Republicans. I don’t see anything I want to imitate in the Democrat party, except many their ability to tap the new technology to misuse the social media for their gain. I suspect this guy, after pouting a bit, will get up, dust himself off, and continue voting and working for truth, justice, and the American way. If he’s right, then the American way is the way of Europe.
I never thought I would see the day where Americans have grown into a mass of greedy, lazy. self serving, socialists. I never thought I would see the day where the once powerful and respectable news media would cave to the love of money over truth. I never thought I would see this once Great Nation, the envy of ALL nations on earth, crumble to the depths of socialism with the massive pile of debt that looms over our heads with no plan in sight to rid us of this burden. I am sick to my stomach. I want to vomit. What we have just witnessed is the end of The United States of America. We will never recover from this. The Republican party is doomed. We have tipped the 50% mark and will now pay the price of our greed. We have reached the point that Thomas Jefferson predicted would happen. Once people are able to vote themselves free money at the expense of other hard working people, we are done. I am done sending out political emails. I am done trying to make sense of what was happening to our country. I am done caring about it. The people have spoken. They obviously don't care. Please do not send me any more "What ifs", or "We should haves", or "if only we" type of emails any more. I really don't care any more. Mark my words, 20$ trillion dollars will be what we owe at the end of this idiots next term. That will be 1$ trillion dollars in interest every year. Unemployment will top out at around 15% and that will be the new normal and it will be okay with everyone, because this guy is....."Cool". Gas will be 6$ to 7$ dollars a gallon. Businesses, the ones that will be left, will be leaving the country in droves. It will no longer be feasible to do business in the USA any more. We will no longer be a manufacturing country. We will be nothing more than a consumer nation that will leach off of the rest of the world. How pathetic have we become? We have allowed a decent, God fearing, caring man like Mitt Romney, who had more knowledge in his little fingernail about how to return this nation to health go down to a self serving, lying, Constitution hating, Declaration of Independence loathing, racially dividing, class envying socialist. Nice work America. Good luck. God help us all.
Kitchen Cabinet staff are far better researchers and experienced political analysts than I am, but I had this one nailed last week when the news of the Petraeus’ affair came out. I figured he wouldn't lie even if he was being blackmailed. I think Clapper and Clinton will eventually decide to tell the truth also, which leaves only the White House claiming the video story to try to save their political skin before the election. To tell you the truth, I don’t think any smarmy revelation would budge an Obama believer by November 2012. He’d lost about 10 million voters since 2008 because of his poor behavior as a president, but if they didn’t leave him for what we already knew, he could have dropped the A-Bomb on Libya and his fans would have stuck with him
“This is the story line emerging in the growing coverage of Benghazi by the major media this week. It’s a tale that is too rich in scandal for even the friendly New York media to ignore. But the most important story may be that General Petraeus, exposed in an embarrassing affair, gave up his job rather than line up with Hillary Clinton, the President, the UN Ambassador and others sent out to pretend like Al Qaeda was never involved. A U.S. Ambassador and three other Americans were murdered by Al Qaeda, and The White House appears to have tried to cover it up.”
http://thekitchencabinet.us/it-was-a-cover-up-the-obama-administration-lied-about-al-qaeda/
This story is from ABC, after the Petraeus testimony today. But half the electorate knew the White House was lying on September 12 just by knowing the date and the amount of ammunition used. Why couldn’t the media connect the dots and ask more questions? Because they didn’t want to hurt Obama’s election to another term.
"Former CIA Director David Petraeus told the House Intelligence Committee today that it's unclear why the Obama administration's original talking points on the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, don't match the CIA's original talking points.
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., told reporters that Petraeus insisted today that he was clear with Congress from the start that the event was a terrorist attack.
However, King added, Petraeus said that after the CIA prepared its talking points, they were vetted by agencies including the Justice Department and the State Department, but "no one knows yet exactly who came up with the final talking points."
"The original talking points prepared by the CIA were different than the final ones put out," King said. Originally, he said, they were "much more specific on al Qaeda involvement."
“I could stop typing now, but then you all would weep and gnash your teeth because you want more paragraphs of my wisdom over which to rejoice or send me hate mail.”
So I’m not the only one who gets hate mail from my holier than thou, self-righteous readers. . . who would have nothing to do to feel holy if I weren’t blogging about truth.
Kristen writes: “There’s a saying: “If you’re not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you’re still a liberal at 40, you have no brain.” I get it. Liberalism is obvious to children, because the most obvious way to help people is to give them stuff and be “nice” to them. It takes a lifetime of learning – and, in my opinion, usually the influence of religion, which helps one understand that man can’t fix all of Earth’s problems – to realize that giving people “free” stuff is impossible, because nothing is free. And because giving people stuff and being “nice” to them is not nice, or helpful; it leads to dependency and corruption and general crappiness. (See Africa, ruined by aid. See also certain parts of Chicago, ruined by leniency.)
Is “blackmail” a racist term now? It didn’t work, either.
Has it only been 10 days? It's just amazing what crawled out from under the oval office carpet after the reelection. Even yesterday, in his first news conference since March, the President played the paternalistic protector of the little helpless lady, U.N. ambassador Susan Rice, who had lied for him on the talk shows in September. Hides behind her skirts, then accuses the senators of bullying her? If Rice is so weak, why nominate her for Secretary of State? Not the FBI, not the CIA, not the DoJ, not State Dept. It was the White House that changed Petraeus' statement.
Not seriously different than the old carpet, except in my office which was very dark forest green and the stairs to the lower level which were sisal, it really looks different.
This certainly wasn't what we were told, and if this was known, why did Obama (surrogates) spend thousands of dollars on an apology campaign in Pakistan? Why was Susan Rice sent to 5 talk shows to tell lies? Was she in the ladies room when Petraeus spoke about Al Qaeda? On September 12, on Facebook and blogs and conservative discussion groups people were already connecting the dots and crying foul. The main stream press didn’t make it a story until it was about sex under and desk after the election. President Obama peddled the lie about the video to the United Nations 10 days after the Rice disgrace and still refuses to say what his role was or when he heard claiming it is all “under investigation.”
"Former CIA Director David Petraeus testified in a closed-door hearing Friday morning that his agency determined immediately after the Sept. 11 Libya attack that "Al Qaeda involvement" was suspected -- but the line was taken out in the final version circulated to administration officials, according to a top lawmaker who was briefed."
The company had warned it would file a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to shut operations if enough workers didn't end their weeklong strike by 5 p.m. ET Thursday.
Twinkies were my husband’s favorite snack before he started watching for sugar on the label. I probably haven’t bought anything Hostess in years, but the company provided a good living for many people.
Wikipedia: Hostess Brands, Inc. was founded as Interstate Bakeries Corporation (IBC) in 1930 and was the largest wholesale baker and distributor of bakery products in the United States. It is the owner of the Hostess, Wonder Bread, Nature's Pride, Dolly Madison, Butternut Breads, and Drake's brands. For many years it was based at 12 East Armour Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. In 2009, after it emerged from a 2004 bankruptcy, the name was changed to Hostess Brands, Inc., and the headquarters moved to Irving, Texas.[2] Hostess Brands, Inc., declared Chapter 11 again in 2012.[3]
In May 2009, Wonder Bread closed in Columbus, Ohio. The plant was almost 100 years old, and according to the local news was too expensive to retrofit for “natural” products demanded by the consumer.
Let’s hope Rayburn, the CEO, doesn’t ever run for president because he’ll be blamed for taking our Twinkies.
We have a president who was voted in by the part of the electorate largely incapable of critical thinking - beginning with single women under the age of 29, and the "receivers" of government largesse, etc.
The questions in my mind in addition to the aforementioned unfortunate reason for the accelerated demise of the "republican" form of government are:
Guess they will wake up in ashes.
And so I wonder what I can or should be doing. Feel like a voice in the wilderness.
Any ideas, Norma?
And some are based on the transient, immoral culture rather than the law.
The Roman Catholic catechism has a 2 paragraph footnote in the explanation of the Trinity, (Article 1, Paragraph 2, 243, )which explains the rift between the Eastern and Western churches.
245 The apostolic faith concerning the Spirit was confessed by the second ecumenical council at Constantinople (381): "We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father." By this confession, the Church recognizes the Father as "the source and origin of the whole divinity". But the eternal origin of the Spirit is not unconnected with the Son's origin: "The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, is God, one and equal with the Father and the Son, of the same substance and also of the same nature... Yet he is not called the Spirit of the Father alone,... but the Spirit of both the Father and the Son." The Creed of the Church from the Council of Constantinople confesses: "With the Father and the Son, he is worshipped and glorified."
246 The Latin tradition of the Creed confesses that the Spirit "proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)". The Council of Florence in 1438 explains: "The Holy Spirit is eternally from Father and Son; He has his nature and subsistence at once (simul) from the Father and the Son. He proceeds eternally from both as from one principle and through one spiration. ... And, since the Father has through generation given to the only-begotten Son everything that belongs to the Father, except being Father, the Son has also eternally from the Father, from whom he is eternally born, that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son."
247 The affirmation of the filioque does not appear in the Creed confessed in 381 at Constantinople. But Pope St. Leo I, following an ancient Latin and Alexandrian tradition, had already confessed it dogmatically in 447, even before Rome, in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon, came to recognize and receive the Symbol of 381. The use of this formula in the Creed was gradually admitted into the Latin liturgy (between the eighth and eleventh centuries). The introduction of the filioque into the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed by the Latin liturgy constitutes moreover, even today, a point of disagreement with the Orthodox Churches.
248 At the outset the Eastern tradition expresses the Father's character as first origin of the Spirit. By confessing the Spirit as he "who proceeds from the Father", it affirms that he comes from the Father through the Son. The Western tradition expresses first the consubstantial communion between Father and Son, by saying that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque). It says this, "legitimately and with good reason", for the eternal order of the divine persons in their consubstantial communion implies that the Father, as "the principle without principle", is the first origin of the Spirit, but also that as Father of the only Son, he is, with the Son, the single principle from which the Holy Spirit proceeds. This legitimate complementarity, provided it does not become rigid, does not affect the identity of faith in the reality of the same mystery confessed.
I hope that’s clear. . . because it split the church forever, and all Protestants (who use the Nicene creed) follow the Western tradition. Even the most devout Christian has difficulty explaining the Trinity, and this makes it even more difficult. If you’re looking for age (tradition), then that would be the Eastern church, but the Magisterium would decide for filioque.
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President Obama sent Susan Rice out to defend his false story about a spontaneous mob reacting to a video so he could cover up that his battle against al-qaeda is not being won, and that the CIA was moving arms to Syria from Libya. When word came out that she might become Secretary of State, and people obviously remember what she did in September, of course there’s grumbling. Hero Obama to the rescue.
“Don’t pick on the little lady.
Wednesday, President Obama bizarrely cast the U.N. Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, as some delicate flower the boys should stop picking on for her dissembling claims on five Sunday talk shows following the killing of 4 Americans in Benghazi. But, there is no damsel in distress and Obama’s paternalistic bravado in defense of a top administration official is going to come back to haunt him.”
Deflect, evade, sneer, whine, blame. It’s getting very old. Can’t this man ever act (pretend) presidential? Even people (some who read this blog) who voted for him realize what is going on.
Today we’re having new carpet installed in my home office and the stairs to the upper level and the lower level and the upstairs hall (same pattern). But everything had to be moved out of the office (not things on the wall shelves). To move the desk, everything had to be taken out of the drawers and I found a rolling 25 gallon tub for that. To move a 3 shelf unit for photo albums, all had to be moved. The computer, modem, wifi, phone, etc. had to relocated temporarily. It’s just amazing what turns up in a move—even a move from the office to the dining room.
1. A birthday letter to me from my mother from 1996. She died in 2000, and I didn’t pack away that letter, but wasn’t real sure where it was. Like having her here to tell me about the day of my birth and why my nickname was “Peachy.”
2. Lots of homemade cards from my friend Lynne. We’ve been friends since high school. I have a scrap book for her cards and poetry, but somehow a little sack of them stayed behind in my desk.
3. A box of note cards with a Frank Lloyd Wright design, plus lots of miscellaneous cards, many as mementoes from museums and travels, from the days when I did less e-mail and more personal notes.
4. A little stamp with my name on it from when I was a Slavic language cataloger at the University of Illinois library. I think the main entry card was stamped with the cataloger’s name in case there was a problem.
5. A set of weights my daughter gave me for Christmas 2 years ago, 3 lb.., 5 lb., 8 lb. Almost like new. They were hard to move.
6. The first issue of George magazine. I collect first issues of serials, and this one didn’t get into the storage box when I rearranged my collection 2 years ago.
7. Scissors for crafts. Zig zag, shaped patterns, etc. I’m not crafty, so not sure why I bought them. It was probably either a good deal or I had a flash of ambition that dissipated before I got home.
8. Pennies, twisty ties,paper clips, mystery keys to suitcases I no longer have and rubber bands too brittle to use.
9. A letter with the last 41 cent postage stamp on it (I’d made a note on the envelope).
10. A photo of my sister and me from 2002 printed from my computer, but I don’t seem to have either a digital copy or print of it.
11. Lots of carefully saved instructions, guarantees, warranties, for digital stuff I almost never use or have replaced.
12. A very nice, never used color coded notebook with 3 x 5 cards.
13. A faded poem on yellow lined paper from my husband written in 1960 on the anniversary of our first date. It was probably in the desk because I repacked that box of memorabilia when we moved here, and so it surfaced 11 years later.
If you’d like to play Thursday Thirteen, or read along, you can join in.
“The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.
The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.
This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years. “
Climate change was not an issue during the campaign, for either candidate, but we can expect Obama to dust off the issue, even with the reports that warming has stopped. He needs to grovel for his base left.
1) Who denied the help, 2) who started the spin about the video, 3) who benefits from the cover up, and 4) why is the CIA in Libya funneling weapons to Syria? These are questions I'd like to have answered by the investigation, but I know they won't be, and even if they were, Obama would find a way to blame someone else. The only time this man wants to be out of the spotlight is when the buck is trying to stop. The sex story of Petraeus, Broadwell, Kelly, Allen, Kelly’s sister, and the FBI guy is complicated and morphing—it perhaps needs a different investigation. And this isn’t for the investigation, but are they showing “fat” photos of Hillary, or has she really gained that much weight? Maybe she needs fewer parties and more attention to what her people are doing?
If you're competing in a horse race, and one of the horses has a better record, better sire and dam, better trainer, and is stronger, it's only fair to the other horses and owners to put him in hobbles to run the race. If Obama owns the track.
Too bad there is no journalist or TV reporter who could look into the implications. Jill’s twin sister, Natalie and her child custody case,is really one of the more interesting sub-texts of this mess, which no one on reality TV or the Soaps would even attempt. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/11/14/jill-ted-petraeus-scandal-infographic/
Our church is no longer a member of ELCA, but when we pulled out, it wasn’t exactly about “gay marriage” because that hasn’t yet been voted on. The issue which had been voted down since 1988, but approved in 2008, was that three ordained and licensed homosexual pastors wanted to be open about their partners, but when they signed on they had agreed to be celibate. There are very naïve Christians out there who think if we just make a concession that only love and personal commitment matter, then we can get on with the business of the Gospel. However, it’s not quite that simple, because other groups like polygamists, man/boy love and incest groups are waiting in the wings also asking for the church to give them its blessing, because really, doesn’t God just care about love, not the gender, the age, or the number?
Today at Dear Prudence (Slate) I read one I’d simply never thought of: twin gay brothers in a committed homosexual relationship with each other. The advice columnist saw no problem, nor did their counselor, because even the men thought it was a little odd, and hadn’t told their parents, who knew they were gay but wondered why they hadn’t found a permanent partner.
This, dear Christian brothers and sisters, is where you are heading.
All because businesses preferred Romney.
Layoffs can be found at dailyjobcuts.com, which is updated daily, and unless you were watching before Nov.6 it might be hard to gauge. However, we know many employers were waiting to see if Romney could kill Obamacare, and thus save jobs. But one I saw I think predates the election, or at least there were rumors. and that's layoffs at Southern Illinois University. Many colleges are over staffed, and have whopping pensions to pay off. Illinois is in deep doo-doo with all gov't associated programs and unions, and we've elected one of them to mess up the rest of the states.
SIU is facing the prospect of covering more employee pension costs under a deal Gov. Pat Quinn wants finished by early January. In addition, sequestration measures that might happen if the federal government pitches over the “fiscal cliff” could severely cripple research and student aid funding.
“The FBI found a substantial amount of classified information improperly secured on the personal computer of disgraced CIA director Gen. David Petraeus’ mistress, sources said yesterday.
The files were discovered on a machine removed from Paula Broadwell’s Charlotte, NC, home as the feds investigated her sordid affair with the military commander whose biography she co-wrote.
Investigators also found documents Broadwell admitted taking from secure government buildings, a source told ABC News, adding the government demanded that they all be returned.”
How did this man ever manage something as complicated as the “surge” if he can’t stay out of messes like this?
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/paula_had_top_secrets_WukhCN61iSxyauU5ErBAtK
Remember David Gergen of the Clinton WH said Sandy Berger hiding classified documents in his socks was innocent, too.
The White House (Jarrett, Obama, Clinton, Rice, etc.) decided to go into Libya without Congressional approval or knowledge. It blew up in their faces. Now they lie, cover up and play musical chairs with positions close to the president. I’m looking for a story link about how effective representative government is during an Obama term. Have you got any? One?
“I can understand the peoples support for the Democrat Party. Much of what they say they stand for sounds moral and compassionate, especially concerning the poor and minority populations. Yet, my convictions and research eventually led me to reject the Democrat ideology, preferring to side with people and political parties more aligned with the morals and values consistent with my Christian faith.
I used to be a Democrat, but I am no longer. I am a registered Republican. Not because I thought the Republican Party was so righteous, but because there came a time in my life as a Democrat, that I could no longer reconcile my politics and my faith.”
“. . . The primary reasons why I reject the Democrat platform is because it has within it the most immoral and ungodly principles to guide this nation. Our preference for this course for our nation is a sure sign that we as a nation have not rejected the Republican Party, per se, but we have rejected God. Just like in the days of Samuel, when the Israelites demanded that Samuel “appoint them a king,” God told Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me.”
. . . “But the reason I choose not to vote Democrat has little to do with the fact that they are the party of Jim Crow and the KKK, but that today they are on the wrong side of the EVERY ISSUE that matters to me most. “Choice,” “Reproductive Rights,” “Marriage Equality,” “Fair Share,” are all repackaged code names for the same age old sins: “child-killing,” “sodomy,” and “covetousness.” Nothing new under the sun.
http://minorityrepublican.com/2012/11/11/post-election-rant/ You might enjoy reading her entire essay. . . or maybe not. If you want to write to her about being a hater, racist, homophobe, etc., you’ll have to register.
It's tragic that so many Americans fall for the line--"tax the rich," not to help the country, but because it's "fair." The richest already pay much more—and they are the job creators. Obama wants that money. Today he was just defensive and nasty especially about Susan Rice and her deception about the video. I turned it off after about 15 minutes. Obama whips up class envy. He's a divider, not a unifier. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. The only years that match 2012 are those of 2011 and 2010—all Obama. If you've ever had a problem with a budget, didn't you cut up the credit cards and cut back on extras? But that's not how the federal government does it. It recruits more people for food stamps and adds expensive programs like Obamacare and adds regulations that destroy jobs so more people can become dependent on the government.
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/14/live-blog-the-obama-press-conference/
“The federal government has cut the size of its police force in Indian country, reduced financing for law enforcement and begun fewer investigations of violent felony crime, even as rates of murder and rape there have increased to more than 20 times the national average, according to data.”
Why would tribal crime rates go up under Democrats?
A “hoodie” sweatshirt from my alma mater—Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
We know what we know. We know Obama knew about Benghazi and he knew about Petraeus (whether he knew about all those other crazies, is anyone's guess). What we don't know is what he has promised/threatened Gen. Petraeus. What Petraeus gets to keep of his reputation, rank, wealth, etc. if he goes along with the administration's version of Benghazi in the testimony, which has been set up to satisfy all those right wing nuts in Congress and on the internet. If you believe it, that’s your business, you now own this mess.
"[T]he key point about Barack Obama is not that he's a secret Muslim Kenyan Commie or whatever. Whether he was born in Honolulu or Mombasa or Stockholm or up on Planet Zongo, what matters ... is that in his general worldview he is entirely typical and perfectly representative of tens upon tens of millions of Americans. Tuesday's majority confirmed that. They don't need a 'conspiracy': They agree with him. That's the problem." --columnist Mark Steyn
And you know who you are. Shame on you. Abortion—54 million since Roe v. Wade and he takes $15 million from the largest provider to get elected; deficit—a trillion a year since taking office; black unemployment 14.3%; cover-ups since September 11, 2012—too many to count.
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